BRAVE BEGINNINGS
Starting over. Showing up. Taking the next step.
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Clear filters ×celebrations · Courage
I promise to love, honor and cherish you all the days of our lives. My son is getting married! On his wedding day, there will be vows exchanged, rings slipped happily on fingers, the traditional mother and son dance, cake cut and…
5 min read Read Getting Married9/11 · Courage
Today at 8:46 a.m. with thousands of other people, I stopped to offer prayers to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist bombing at the World Trade Center. 8:46 was the moment when the plane hit the first tower. I played “Amazing Grace”…
4 min read Read Amazing Graceblack lab · Courage
Dear Fenway, It is the sixth day since you crossed the rainbow bridge. It never occurred to me you would go on this adventure so soon. I imagined us growing into senior years together. Your slick, incredibly shiny black coat would slowly…
19 min read Read For Fenway, A Love Lettercareer · celebrations
“Mirror Mirror on the wall, I’m my mother after all.” Mom helping me dress wedding day 1982 It happened just the other day when I went into the downstairs bath to get a tissue. I looked into the mirror as is my habit…
4 min read Read Mirror Mirrorcareer · family
What if I change course to pursue a lifestyle of fun, learning and writing? Since moving to Baltimore last fall, I spent time just being, what I always craved when I had communications jobs where I had prestige yet no time to…
3 min read Read A new life…and making piesCourage · Dads
Adventurers 1992 “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” —Clarence Budington Kelland T is the Pied Piper of our family. From the moment the boys were born, he had a vision for…
3 min read Read Dad, The Center of Our Universe